A counter where someone explains it
Woodside is one of the most linguistically diverse neighborhoods in the country, and medication instructions are exactly the wrong place for a language gap. Our staff is multilingual, and the person handing over a prescription is the person who can answer what it's for, what it shouldn't be taken with, and what to do about the side effect you're worried about.
We have been doing this on Greenpoint Avenue since 1979 — long enough to be filling for the second and third generation of some families. If you'd rather not come in at all, the delivery is free with no minimum, and Woodside is close enough that same-day is the norm for orders placed during pharmacy hours.
Four things worth switching for
Weekly packs for a parent
Blister and bubble packaging sorted by day and time of day. If you're managing an older parent's medications from across the borough — or across the world — this is the single change that stops the phone calls about whether the pills were taken.
Insurance we actually fight
Most major plans, Medicare Part D and Medicaid. When something needs a prior authorization we call the prescriber ourselves. When a drug is on backorder we look for a therapeutic alternative or compound around it rather than telling you to check back next week.
Medicine kids will take
With a pediatrician's prescription we compound liquid medications in strawberry, bubblegum and grape, and can make a pill into a liquid when swallowing is the problem. See our compounding.
Flu shots and travel vaccines
Flu, COVID and travel vaccines, most insurance accepted. Woodside employers and community groups can also ask us about running an on-site flu clinic for staff in the fall.
Where we deliver in Woodside
Every address in 11377, free and with no minimum: Big Six Towers, Woodside Houses, the blocks around 61st Street–Woodside, Roosevelt Avenue and Queens Boulevard, Skillman and 39th Avenue, and the streets running north toward Northern Boulevard. High-rise deliveries go to the front desk or your door, whichever you prefer.
Switching is one phone call
Your name, your date of birth, and where you fill now. We do the rest — including calling your old pharmacy — and deliver to your Woodside address, usually the same day.